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Quotes by Musician
"Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion."
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"I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions."
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"Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct."
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"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
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"I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance."
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"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
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"I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up."
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"I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out."
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"If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song."
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"We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us."
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"I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing."
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"When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman."
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"Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else."
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"Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult."
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"If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks."
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"I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them."
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"Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation."
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"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense."
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"And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything."
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"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."
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